Well if you actually have any sympathy, you might want to lay off taking cheap shots at them. Just a thought. DURR HURR COAL HURR in a conversation about India and China's moon missions. Super-off topic and inflammatory.
You don't even know who I am taking the shots at. Just as a refresher, The present administration cynically used the concept of putting coal miners back to work in an effort to procure votes in the states that were affected by the downturn in the coal industry.
For anyone keeping up with the news - why it wasn't obvious that they were the ones I was aiming at is curious to me, but I guess you must know on some level, given your umbrage.
The fix for disappearing coal miner jobs is to enable employment opportunities for them in other industries.
It is not repairable by a return to the 1950's. Which is the crux of my lame joke, that other countries are going to overtake us while we're busy trying to relive the past.
The total plane contract is signed. They are going to be built. Bringing the cost of each plane down is dependent on production increasing.
Shouldn't they also work on making the planes effective? This was a dubious one size fits all plane that turns out to be the fighter version of the Honda Ridgeline. Sucks as a truck, as a SUV.
If you want the best of anything, it has to be purpose built. The F-35 is often compared to the A-10. The A-10 is the very definition of purpose built, and old Brrrrrrrt! has become a legend in the process. The F-35 is a plane designed by a committee, and it shows it. I
Many good planes have had birthing issues. The F35 is going to come out with some hard to fix issues, and will almost be certainly turned into a plane shuttled into a safe niche other than it's one size fits all concept.
Man, Trump really triggered you with his sympathy for coal miners.
Triggered is such an amusing word. As for sympathy for out of work coal miners, I live in the area and I have plenty of sympathy for the workers.. I'm also realistic enough to know that we could strip out every bit of coal around here, and they aren't getting their jobs back. Automation allows a few men to blast and strip huge amounts of coal. Hell, the post stripping land reclamation might employ more people.
You won't shut up about it, and I see it get injected into irrelevant conversations all the time, which means it's in your brain constantly.
While your concern for me is touching, it appears you pretty much exemplify the concept of being triggered. Hard to imagine anyone taking my one liner as anything other than a joke, but it has angered you quite a bit. Relax fam. Life can suck, but there's no reason to make it suck worse by walking around looking for something to get outraged about.
Boy, it sure bugs you that those oppressed rural working class people have someone to represent their interests now. Burns you up, 24 hours a day.
I should make a study of the strange strawmen and bizzare and incorrect conclusions that some people can come to in support of self validation.
Well bro, I was born and raised in coal country. Many of my relatives worked the mines, and a few died in them. I could have gone to work in either the limestone mines or coal fields, but the writing was on the wall even way back in the late 60's. This was a field that was going to lose people. The draglines were getting bigger, and the archchetype of hundreds of coaldust covered men working away underground with steam drills was fading fast.
I got out. Turned out I made the right choice based on rational decisions, not inertia or thinking that everything was going to stay the same. Today in either field, a few men can harvest in weeks what used to take hundreds of them decades to remove. The jobs are not coming back, and the very few new ones will require moving away from family, which is not popular.
If we want to help these people, we need to steer them towards fields that are going to employ people. Makes sense maybe?
Unless you are encouraging a makework project the likes that old FDR would love, where we revert to pre steam drill days, and start shaft mining again, men using pick and shovel and donkey carts to remove the coal. Those little donkeys were cute for sure. That would be pretty socialist. But it would employ a lot of people.
Regardless fam, you should stop projecting your anger onto me. Simple jokes are meant to be laughed or groaned at, not to have you pretend I am angry and "triggered" when it is pretty obvious that person is you. Laugh a little at life, it is absurd.
It was coal powered industries that took us to the moon. Anyone that thinks we can return to the moon, or go beyond, using windmills and solar collectors is a fool.
I'm not certain where I said what you seem to think I said. You need to show me.
Or are you saying that we will not be able to go anywhere now if we don't increase coal production? I can play your game too.
We are reaching the physical limits of chemical rockets. We can use chemical rockets to get to the moon and back but if we expect to get people to Mars or Venus then we will need nuclear power.
We tried solar power on the moon, on Mars, on comets, and so much more. It turns out that solar power gets pretty weak out at Mars orbit.
Sure. But you've made a pretty big strawman out of a lame joke about where America's priorities are now.
There you go. We'll still need coal-mining techniques for the moon. You know, to extract all the remains from the dinosaurs that got blown off the planet from the last comet.
Plus, while everybody else is trying to shelter under their solar-panel farms because they forgot how to dig a hole, we'll be living in great underground caverns, housing all of our excess coal-miners from Earth.
I like the spirit of your post, but caution that most of what we do is strip mining or mountain topping.
Well, moderation is not in the wheelhouse of most substance abusers... so there's always a market for ideas like this one. My own project is weed infused Oreo cookies.
First off, I deplore the ideals espoused in _Mein Kamp_, and its sequel. Furthermore, I found _White Man's Bible_ illogical, irrational, unethical, immoral, and unjust.
All that said, demonitising video advocating/utilising those philosphical/theological/political positions, or anything similar is troubling.
What happens when it is is decided that _Das Kapital_, and the philosophical/economic/political system it advocates is viewed as unacceptable? Alternatively, substitute _The Bhagavad Gita_, or _The Book of Coming Forth By Day_.
Then there is the issue of commenting on issues of the day, when those issues involve unsavory ideas, characters, actions, economic systems, or political theories.
You are right you know, and that's part of this whole problem. People on the far right and left have been complaining and getting perfectly civil youtube channels demonitized that merely espouse a different opinion than they hold.
The real freakshow channels were the first and easiest targets.
I'm pretty certain that Youtube has figured out where this all ends up, and it is a lot less money for them.
Walmart stresses that the robots are there to supplement humans, not replace them... shelf checks can cost a major retailer hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
So either they are going to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by paying employees less (fewer hours or fewer employees), or they're going to have them start doing things with their time that they aren't doing now. Which seems more likely?
Wally World is now run hard by accountants, and they don't make a move that isn't designed to increase profits. The problem of course is that you can increase profits in the short term that harms you long term. People permantly unemployed arent much at shopping, and we cant have everyone living off the government.
Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
Scale is the difference. TV channels serve the same dozen ads on a hundred ad time slots each day. YouTube serves millions of different ads on billions of videos each day.You might be able to pick up a handful of sand, but moving the entire beach is a different matter altogether.
Well, the alternative is total failure. There is absolutely no impediment to having different packages of advertisements tailored to specific demographics. And no reason that a Youtuber cannot pick and choose say a conservative or liberal package, or one for older people or younger people's interest. If I have say a technical video I produced, I don't even want a Depends advertisement on it.
This is about as much rocket science as a file suffix. I'd even say that the first internet ad server service that comes up with this will put a number of others out of business.
So if the companies that are aghast that the right or left wing social Justice crowd will boycott them can say I only want my advertisements on the politically correct pages that are safe for us.
Which is the real problem. It's retarded to think people will associate you with the video content, it's obvious you're just advertising on the site as a whole.
The problem isn't just associations, but that you may have an objection to advertising to particular group. If I sell Nordic clothing, I may have a real objection to neo-nazis even seeing my ads and buying my products. If I sell condoms, I may have a real objection to my ads being shown on channels which will cause a barrage of hateful mail and phone calls.
I think the advertisers should be able to choose, but I think they should be provided with enough information to make informed choices. Overly broad classifications do not seem all that useful.
SRSLY? Your examples require blocking of viewers, not ads. Do you think that a Nazi is somehow not capable of looking at your ads, or that the Duggar's won't ever see an ad for condoms?
If an advertiser wants only a specific audience and no other to see their product ads, there is no solution.
The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads.
Which is the real problem. It's retarded to think people will associate you with the video content, it's obvious you're just advertising on the site as a whole.
The model is bad. Its easy to just scattershot ads, which will give you Depends ads on a hunting channel, or NRA ads on some pro-gun control video. They need to target the ads, to make use of the Demographics of the audience. The NRA is not likely to care if their adverts are shown on a NeoNazi or White supremacist channel, so calls to boycott cna be easily ignored.
Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
it was their old system. It lead to a few adverts showing up on Neo-Nazi channels. The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads. Like it or not youtube, like tv, has to worry about offending people since people who get offended are loud. Annoying, but loud.
While most reasonable people would have no issue with demonetizing Nazi or White supremacist channels, Youtube's original "solution" ended up as people trying to squelch others.
The Young Turks or the MGTOW channels might have opinions that some folks don't like, but the concept of trying to put them out of business simply because you don't like their opinion is dumb.
Its a little amusing that the middle-far left has discovered a tool once used mainly by the religious right. Boycotting only works a small portion of the time. And now that people on both sides of the spectrum are using it, under the present ad model, it will just kill monetization.
If the ad services are going to continue, here is the solution:
Ad-serving is badly broken. Grandma is using Ad-Blockers now. People using phones to surf the web get their caps blown with the crap they are served. My favorite example is once when I needed a 15KByte file, the associated Web page Downloaded 40 MByte to my phone.
No one has time for that crap.
As well, it is well documented that you can easily get malware through the ads. Grandma doesn't call me so often when she's got her computer screwed up.
The solution is simple - demographics.
Ever watch say, Judge Judy in the afternoon? They have a target audience that enjoys listening to her yell at idiots. So the ads played are for crap like maintenance drugs, and lawyer firms that want you to sue the company for the side effects of those maintenance drugs. Adult diapers and Ensure protein drink. Lawyers firms that promise to get you on SSI disability. There's some more, but its obvious that the audience is targeted - older people and people who aren't working.
Cartoon Channel, Nickelodeon and the Food Channel also has their targeted adverts.
This way, instead of conservatives being pissed off at Cenk Uygar and want to hit him in the pocketbook or the Lesbian Alliance and Association of Gender studies who want to silence the butthurt guys who lost everything in a divorce case, you can get more targeted ads that people who are interested in the content - not eliminating the content - are going to accept.
Demographics, and malware removal aka the people serving up this stuff knowing what and who they are serving will go a long way towards fixing the problem. Because the present model is 100 percent unsustainable.
Its not about not knowing -- we're well aware that crap is hurtling through space and its just a matter of time before something comes our direction.
Odd you got that from my post. I was replying to:
"It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
We simply do not know where all of the objects that might hit us are. As this object shows, they might come from any direction even if most are likely to be traveling near the ecliptic.
What we don't know is exactly where all the objects are coming from.
And providing detection in all directions is going to be a bit difficult. Which means we won't know what we don't know unless we have that ability.
Or Microsoft Zune, or Windows phone, Sorry you didn't get the joke, that Microsoft is so often late to the game.
Apple has had some duds, but Microsoft is the best.
But this is Microsoft, so we'll have to have someone else develop it, Apple to make it popular, than Microsoft will jump in the fray 4 years later yelling "Me Too!, Me Too!"
It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
It's the old story - you just don't know what you don't know. And any predictions have to be based on what we know.
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
They'll be making it off other robots who shop in the store. Eventually the owners of the store will be robots. And so on, robots all the way down.
Fast-forward several millennia, when aliens arrive on Planet Earth, and find it teeming with robots following the mindless, perfunctory patters of the society of humans who built them. The aliens will scratch their bulbous heads in confusion, turn around to go back to their ship, when one of them will say "hey, we could use a set of nut-drivers."
I found nothing in that that I could refute, so I'm gonna go with that as well..8^)
Um, John walker spied on the US Navy for like 16 years and only got caught because his ex wife turned him in....
Umm yourself, muchacho. Seriously, you aren't even arguing the same thing I am. I said that Occam's razor was in effect, that A group with Kremlin ties that had root level access to a computer that some dumfuk illegally stored classified data on would be interested in that data, and would send that data up the line. I mean I've been trying to stop picking on Russian trolls here, but that should be obvious to anyone who isn't simply supporting the FSI or FIS.
And that is in opposition to the rather complicated idea that another poster - guruevi - wrote:
"Nobody has ever said the Russians had the malware. Russian government involvement is a red herring spun to distract you from the Russia-Clinton-Obama inconvenience."
That, Friend, is a conspiracy theory. Although it shouldn't be necessary, my definition of conspracy theories dovetails with the Wikipedia entry of the same -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory . From the article:
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors. Conspiracy theories often produce hypotheses that contradict the prevailing understanding of history or simple facts. The term is a derogatory one......conspiracy theories rely on the view that the universe is governed by design, and embody three principles: nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected. Another common feature is that conspiracy theories evolve to incorporate whatever evidence exists against them, so that they become, as Barkun writes, a closed system that is unfalsifiable, and therefore "a matter of faith rather than proof".
And you seem to think that I for some reason don't think there were ever any American spies working for Russia? How odd. And in a fit of irony, you get all insulting about it when you haven't figgered it out. Reread both the thread and what a conspiracy theory is.
Now if you are actually following the conversation, and want to make a point, Here's what you need to do with your argument:
Show how John Walker was a red herring or a complicated and misleading and widespread conspiracy.
The same with the Rosenbergs and all of your other examples.
Now there is a conspiracy theory is in regards to to Rosenberg's of which Alan Dershowitz claims they were framed. http://articles.latimes.com/19...
But that's into grassy knoll, Ted Cruz's father being involved in the Kennedy Assassination and chemtrail and Pizzagate and water spray rainbows and faked moon landing territory, and gets a real weird twist by claiming that the Rosenberg's were both guilty of their crime, and framed.
So unless you can show how those are actual conspiracy theories involved in teh commission of the crimes, you are just wasting both of our times. Buh-Bye.
As big of a predator Walmart is to local economy, still amuses me they're complaining about Amazon and how "unfair" they are. The day I see robots flying around Walmart, is the day I exclusively buy from Amazon. Suck it Walmart,
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
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Well if you actually have any sympathy, you might want to lay off taking cheap shots at them. Just a thought. DURR HURR COAL HURR in a conversation about India and China's moon missions. Super-off topic and inflammatory.
You don't even know who I am taking the shots at. Just as a refresher, The present administration cynically used the concept of putting coal miners back to work in an effort to procure votes in the states that were affected by the downturn in the coal industry.
For anyone keeping up with the news - why it wasn't obvious that they were the ones I was aiming at is curious to me, but I guess you must know on some level, given your umbrage.
The fix for disappearing coal miner jobs is to enable employment opportunities for them in other industries.
It is not repairable by a return to the 1950's. Which is the crux of my lame joke, that other countries are going to overtake us while we're busy trying to relive the past.
That is all. Enjoy your anger.
The total plane contract is signed. They are going to be built. Bringing the cost of each plane down is dependent on production increasing.
Shouldn't they also work on making the planes effective? This was a dubious one size fits all plane that turns out to be the fighter version of the Honda Ridgeline. Sucks as a truck, as a SUV.
If you want the best of anything, it has to be purpose built. The F-35 is often compared to the A-10. The A-10 is the very definition of purpose built, and old Brrrrrrrt! has become a legend in the process. The F-35 is a plane designed by a committee, and it shows it. I
Many good planes have had birthing issues. The F35 is going to come out with some hard to fix issues, and will almost be certainly turned into a plane shuttled into a safe niche other than it's one size fits all concept.
Man, Trump really triggered you with his sympathy for coal miners.
Triggered is such an amusing word. As for sympathy for out of work coal miners, I live in the area and I have plenty of sympathy for the workers.. I'm also realistic enough to know that we could strip out every bit of coal around here, and they aren't getting their jobs back. Automation allows a few men to blast and strip huge amounts of coal. Hell, the post stripping land reclamation might employ more people.
You won't shut up about it, and I see it get injected into irrelevant conversations all the time, which means it's in your brain constantly.
While your concern for me is touching, it appears you pretty much exemplify the concept of being triggered. Hard to imagine anyone taking my one liner as anything other than a joke, but it has angered you quite a bit. Relax fam. Life can suck, but there's no reason to make it suck worse by walking around looking for something to get outraged about.
Boy, it sure bugs you that those oppressed rural working class people have someone to represent their interests now. Burns you up, 24 hours a day.
I should make a study of the strange strawmen and bizzare and incorrect conclusions that some people can come to in support of self validation.
Well bro, I was born and raised in coal country. Many of my relatives worked the mines, and a few died in them. I could have gone to work in either the limestone mines or coal fields, but the writing was on the wall even way back in the late 60's. This was a field that was going to lose people. The draglines were getting bigger, and the archchetype of hundreds of coaldust covered men working away underground with steam drills was fading fast.
I got out. Turned out I made the right choice based on rational decisions, not inertia or thinking that everything was going to stay the same. Today in either field, a few men can harvest in weeks what used to take hundreds of them decades to remove. The jobs are not coming back, and the very few new ones will require moving away from family, which is not popular.
If we want to help these people, we need to steer them towards fields that are going to employ people. Makes sense maybe?
Unless you are encouraging a makework project the likes that old FDR would love, where we revert to pre steam drill days, and start shaft mining again, men using pick and shovel and donkey carts to remove the coal. Those little donkeys were cute for sure. That would be pretty socialist. But it would employ a lot of people.
Regardless fam, you should stop projecting your anger onto me. Simple jokes are meant to be laughed or groaned at, not to have you pretend I am angry and "triggered" when it is pretty obvious that person is you. Laugh a little at life, it is absurd.
It was coal powered industries that took us to the moon. Anyone that thinks we can return to the moon, or go beyond, using windmills and solar collectors is a fool.
I'm not certain where I said what you seem to think I said. You need to show me.
Or are you saying that we will not be able to go anywhere now if we don't increase coal production? I can play your game too.
We are reaching the physical limits of chemical rockets. We can use chemical rockets to get to the moon and back but if we expect to get people to Mars or Venus then we will need nuclear power.
We tried solar power on the moon, on Mars, on comets, and so much more. It turns out that solar power gets pretty weak out at Mars orbit.
Sure. But you've made a pretty big strawman out of a lame joke about where America's priorities are now.
There you go. We'll still need coal-mining techniques for the moon. You know, to extract all the remains from the dinosaurs that got blown off the planet from the last comet.
Plus, while everybody else is trying to shelter under their solar-panel farms because they forgot how to dig a hole, we'll be living in great underground caverns, housing all of our excess coal-miners from Earth.
I like the spirit of your post, but caution that most of what we do is strip mining or mountain topping.
The reports of alcoholic beverages being healthy are the result of bad science and the results regularly get reversed by other studies.
Take it up with the Mayo clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/hea...
Well, moderation is not in the wheelhouse of most substance abusers... so there's always a market for ideas like this one. My own project is weed infused Oreo cookies.
Is it in the cookie, or the icing inside?
First off, I deplore the ideals espoused in _Mein Kamp_, and its sequel. Furthermore, I found _White Man's Bible_ illogical, irrational, unethical, immoral, and unjust.
All that said, demonitising video advocating/utilising those philosphical/theological/political positions, or anything similar is troubling. What happens when it is is decided that _Das Kapital_, and the philosophical/economic/political system it advocates is viewed as unacceptable? Alternatively, substitute _The Bhagavad Gita_, or _The Book of Coming Forth By Day_.
Then there is the issue of commenting on issues of the day, when those issues involve unsavory ideas, characters, actions, economic systems, or political theories.
You are right you know, and that's part of this whole problem. People on the far right and left have been complaining and getting perfectly civil youtube channels demonitized that merely espouse a different opinion than they hold.
The real freakshow channels were the first and easiest targets.
I'm pretty certain that Youtube has figured out where this all ends up, and it is a lot less money for them.
Yeah, this doesn't add up.
Walmart stresses that the robots are there to supplement humans, not replace them... shelf checks can cost a major retailer hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
So either they are going to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year by paying employees less (fewer hours or fewer employees), or they're going to have them start doing things with their time that they aren't doing now. Which seems more likely?
Wally World is now run hard by accountants, and they don't make a move that isn't designed to increase profits. The problem of course is that you can increase profits in the short term that harms you long term. People permantly unemployed arent much at shopping, and we cant have everyone living off the government.
You go to the moon. We're doing the real high tech work of re-opening coal mines.
Because drinking in general moderation is not considered unsafe?
If you wanted to make it safe you'd be drinking alcohol free beverages. You're far more likely to die from impairment than liver damage.
It does seem a little odd, like suggesting making binging and alcoholsm better.
Drinking in moderation is actually quite good for a person, and won't damage a person's liver to any extent.
I'm not certain what substances exist that are not toxic in huge amounts, be it water, oxygen or other stuff we need to live.
Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
Scale is the difference. TV channels serve the same dozen ads on a hundred ad time slots each day. YouTube serves millions of different ads on billions of videos each day.You might be able to pick up a handful of sand, but moving the entire beach is a different matter altogether.
Well, the alternative is total failure. There is absolutely no impediment to having different packages of advertisements tailored to specific demographics. And no reason that a Youtuber cannot pick and choose say a conservative or liberal package, or one for older people or younger people's interest. If I have say a technical video I produced, I don't even want a Depends advertisement on it.
This is about as much rocket science as a file suffix. I'd even say that the first internet ad server service that comes up with this will put a number of others out of business.
So if the companies that are aghast that the right or left wing social Justice crowd will boycott them can say I only want my advertisements on the politically correct pages that are safe for us.
Which is the real problem. It's retarded to think people will associate you with the video content, it's obvious you're just advertising on the site as a whole.
The problem isn't just associations, but that you may have an objection to advertising to particular group. If I sell Nordic clothing, I may have a real objection to neo-nazis even seeing my ads and buying my products. If I sell condoms, I may have a real objection to my ads being shown on channels which will cause a barrage of hateful mail and phone calls.
I think the advertisers should be able to choose, but I think they should be provided with enough information to make informed choices. Overly broad classifications do not seem all that useful.
SRSLY? Your examples require blocking of viewers, not ads. Do you think that a Nazi is somehow not capable of looking at your ads, or that the Duggar's won't ever see an ad for condoms?
If an advertiser wants only a specific audience and no other to see their product ads, there is no solution.
The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads.
Which is the real problem. It's retarded to think people will associate you with the video content, it's obvious you're just advertising on the site as a whole.
The model is bad. Its easy to just scattershot ads, which will give you Depends ads on a hunting channel, or NRA ads on some pro-gun control video. They need to target the ads, to make use of the Demographics of the audience. The NRA is not likely to care if their adverts are shown on a NeoNazi or White supremacist channel, so calls to boycott cna be easily ignored.
Thing that's weird is that the folks who serve up these ads haven't figured that out. Of course it will take a little work, but the Television industry has been doing this for years.
it was their old system. It lead to a few adverts showing up on Neo-Nazi channels. The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads. Like it or not youtube, like tv, has to worry about offending people since people who get offended are loud. Annoying, but loud.
While most reasonable people would have no issue with demonetizing Nazi or White supremacist channels, Youtube's original "solution" ended up as people trying to squelch others.
The Young Turks or the MGTOW channels might have opinions that some folks don't like, but the concept of trying to put them out of business simply because you don't like their opinion is dumb.
Its a little amusing that the middle-far left has discovered a tool once used mainly by the religious right. Boycotting only works a small portion of the time. And now that people on both sides of the spectrum are using it, under the present ad model, it will just kill monetization.
If the ad services are going to continue, here is the solution:
Ad-serving is badly broken. Grandma is using Ad-Blockers now. People using phones to surf the web get their caps blown with the crap they are served. My favorite example is once when I needed a 15KByte file, the associated Web page Downloaded 40 MByte to my phone.
No one has time for that crap.
As well, it is well documented that you can easily get malware through the ads. Grandma doesn't call me so often when she's got her computer screwed up.
The solution is simple - demographics.
Ever watch say, Judge Judy in the afternoon? They have a target audience that enjoys listening to her yell at idiots. So the ads played are for crap like maintenance drugs, and lawyer firms that want you to sue the company for the side effects of those maintenance drugs. Adult diapers and Ensure protein drink. Lawyers firms that promise to get you on SSI disability. There's some more, but its obvious that the audience is targeted - older people and people who aren't working.
Cartoon Channel, Nickelodeon and the Food Channel also has their targeted adverts.
This way, instead of conservatives being pissed off at Cenk Uygar and want to hit him in the pocketbook or the Lesbian Alliance and Association of Gender studies who want to silence the butthurt guys who lost everything in a divorce case, you can get more targeted ads that people who are interested in the content - not eliminating the content - are going to accept.
Demographics, and malware removal aka the people serving up this stuff knowing what and who they are serving will go a long way towards fixing the problem. Because the present model is 100 percent unsustainable.
Sounds like Linux. And most open source software.. which are clones of existing successful proprietary products.
Waht's you point? I doubt that "linux" will make a folding smartphone. Linux doesn't make anything.
Except I have been using MS smartphones since 2001, where was Apple? Borrowing money from MS
Going to buy a new Windows phone today?
Its not about not knowing -- we're well aware that crap is hurtling through space and its just a matter of time before something comes our direction.
Odd you got that from my post. I was replying to :
"It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
We simply do not know where all of the objects that might hit us are. As this object shows, they might come from any direction even if most are likely to be traveling near the ecliptic.
What we don't know is exactly where all the objects are coming from.
And providing detection in all directions is going to be a bit difficult. Which means we won't know what we don't know unless we have that ability.
Yeah just like the iPad Pro.
Or Microsoft Zune, or Windows phone, Sorry you didn't get the joke, that Microsoft is so often late to the game. Apple has had some duds, but Microsoft is the best.
But this is Microsoft, so we'll have to have someone else develop it, Apple to make it popular, than Microsoft will jump in the fray 4 years later yelling "Me Too!, Me Too!"
It's a bit unsettling that we didn't notice this until it had passed the earth at a relatively close distance, and passed through the plane of the ecliptic twice. I know the chances of an impact are very low, but the late detection indicates that we may be missing an unknown number of events like this, and may not be correct about estimates of the chances of being hit by one.
It's the old story - you just don't know what you don't know. And any predictions have to be based on what we know.
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
They'll be making it off other robots who shop in the store. Eventually the owners of the store will be robots. And so on, robots all the way down.
Fast-forward several millennia, when aliens arrive on Planet Earth, and find it teeming with robots following the mindless, perfunctory patters of the society of humans who built them. The aliens will scratch their bulbous heads in confusion, turn around to go back to their ship, when one of them will say "hey, we could use a set of nut-drivers."
I found nothing in that that I could refute, so I'm gonna go with that as well..8^)
Um, John walker spied on the US Navy for like 16 years and only got caught because his ex wife turned him in....
Umm yourself, muchacho. Seriously, you aren't even arguing the same thing I am. I said that Occam's razor was in effect, that A group with Kremlin ties that had root level access to a computer that some dumfuk illegally stored classified data on would be interested in that data, and would send that data up the line. I mean I've been trying to stop picking on Russian trolls here, but that should be obvious to anyone who isn't simply supporting the FSI or FIS.
And that is in opposition to the rather complicated idea that another poster - guruevi - wrote:
"Nobody has ever said the Russians had the malware. Russian government involvement is a red herring spun to distract you from the Russia-Clinton-Obama inconvenience."
That, Friend, is a conspiracy theory. Although it shouldn't be necessary, my definition of conspracy theories dovetails with the Wikipedia entry of the same -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory . From the article:
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors. Conspiracy theories often produce hypotheses that contradict the prevailing understanding of history or simple facts. The term is a derogatory one......conspiracy theories rely on the view that the universe is governed by design, and embody three principles: nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected. Another common feature is that conspiracy theories evolve to incorporate whatever evidence exists against them, so that they become, as Barkun writes, a closed system that is unfalsifiable, and therefore "a matter of faith rather than proof".
And you seem to think that I for some reason don't think there were ever any American spies working for Russia? How odd. And in a fit of irony, you get all insulting about it when you haven't figgered it out. Reread both the thread and what a conspiracy theory is.
Now if you are actually following the conversation, and want to make a point, Here's what you need to do with your argument:
Show how John Walker was a red herring or a complicated and misleading and widespread conspiracy.
The same with the Rosenbergs and all of your other examples.
Now there is a conspiracy theory is in regards to to Rosenberg's of which Alan Dershowitz claims they were framed. http://articles.latimes.com/19...
But that's into grassy knoll, Ted Cruz's father being involved in the Kennedy Assassination and chemtrail and Pizzagate and water spray rainbows and faked moon landing territory, and gets a real weird twist by claiming that the Rosenberg's were both guilty of their crime, and framed.
So unless you can show how those are actual conspiracy theories involved in teh commission of the crimes, you are just wasting both of our times. Buh-Bye.
As big of a predator Walmart is to local economy, still amuses me they're complaining about Amazon and how "unfair" they are. The day I see robots flying around Walmart, is the day I exclusively buy from Amazon. Suck it Walmart,
Just imagine when corporatism finally achieves it's goal of no employees. They'll really make a lot of money then.
Oh, bullshit. Walmart does not do a damn thing that isn't geared to replacing as many of the enemy - AKA employees- as possible.